Holotopia: The box
Contents
Holotopia: The box
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Socialized Reality
Themes
Foundation for social creation of truth and meaning; epistemology
Scope
Two things are hidden: The foundations (they are under the earth); and ourselves. Without the help of a mirror, we believe that what we see is "the reality". Becoming aware of ourselves—of our cognitive biases, and our culture's biases, is what makes all the difference.
Insight
From the traditional culture we've adopted a myth—far more disruptive than the myth of creation—that the purpose of information, and of knowledge, is to tell us "how the reality really is".
Knowledge is NOT reality. It's our own construction. And most importantly—our culture's construction.
The holotopia is on "the reality" other side of the mirror.
The role of the academia is to guide the society to the other side.
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Stories
Bourdieu did not travel to Algeria as a sociologist; in Algeria he became a sociologist—by acquiring a core insight, which marked his subsequent career. The insight is how (what we call) socialization organizes the practical life in a society.
More concretely, in Algeria Bourdieu had a chance to witness how the interrogation, the prison and the torture chamber (as instruments of power that were passed on all the way from Galilei's time), which were ubiquitous </p>
This iconic image of the Enlightenment... And his eppur si muove... Let us zoom in on this pivotal moment of our civilization's history. See what it really meant. And what resulted.
Notice first of all that the real issue was not whether the Earth was moving or not. That was just a technicality. Galilei was held in house arrest because of the dangerous meme he was carrying—that when the reason contradicted the Scripture, it might still be legitimate to give the reason the benefit of our doubt
Bourdieu did not travel to Algeria as a sociologist; in Algeria he became a sociologist—by acquiring a core insight, which marked his subsequent career. The insight is how (what we call) socialization organizes the practical life in a society.
More concretely, in Algeria Bourdieu had a chance to witness how the interrogation, the prison and the torture chamber (as instruments of power that were passed on all the way from Galilei's time), which were ubiquitous </p>
Resolution
Truth by convention takes us through the mirror. The design epistemology empowers us to build.
Keywords
- Culture
- Information; implicit information
- Homo ludens
- Epistemology
- Gestalt
- Dialog
Prototypes
- What's Going on?
- Design epistemology